Aquaporin Water Channels Peter Agre Roderick MacKinnon All living matter is made up of cells. A single human being has as many as the stars in a galaxy‚ about one hundred thousand million. The various cells – e.g. muscle cells‚ kidney cells and nerve cells – act together in an intricate system in each one of us. Through pioneering discoveries concerning the water and ion channels of cells‚ this year’s Nobel Laureates Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon‚ have contributed to fundamental chemical
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What were the main issues at stake for each party during the Williamite/Jacobite conflict in Ireland? The Williamite-Jacobite conflict in Ireland came to a head during 1689-1691 in which Ireland was ‘engulfed by war on a major scale’.[1] Tensions had been rising after the Glorious Revolution in which William of Orange had successfully accepted the Crown of England and Scotland after James II had fled to France. Louis XIV had persuaded James to go to Ireland‚ traditionally the back door to England
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Unit 4 Study Guide (Chapters 16-20) Chapter 16: Renaissance‚ Reformation‚ Absolutism & Enlightenment 1. What was the Protestant Reformation? Religious reform movement within the Latin Christian Church beginning in 1519; resulted in the “protesters” forming several new Christian denominations‚ including Lutheran and Reformed Churches and the Church of England How did Martin Luther promote the ideas of the Reformation? Posted a 95-page thesis on the door
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Psychological Science Agenda | December 2003 Science Briefs Children and Internet Use: Social‚ Psychological and Academic Consequences for Low-income Children Does Using the Internet Affect Children’s Development? By Linda A. Jackson‚ PhD‚ Alexander vo Eye‚ PhD‚ and Frank Biocca‚ PhD Does using the Internet affect children’s development? Do children become socially isolated or connected when they use the Internet? Do they become depressed or elated? Does school performance suffer or improve? A wealth
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Interdisciplinary teaching is a method‚ or set of methods‚ used to teach a unit across different curricular disciplines. For example‚ the seventh grade Language Arts‚ Science and Social Studies teachers might work together to form an interdisciplinary unit on rivers. The local river system would be the unifying idea‚ but the English teacher would link it to Language Arts by studying river vocabulary and teaching students how to do a research report. The science teacher might teach children about
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expressed a desire for biblical piety. He rarely used the term reformation. When he used the term‚ it was in the sense of a comprehensive renewal of the church. In 1529‚ his followers were called Protestants and from 1530 onward as followers of the Augsburg Confession. It was only in 1580 that the Lutheran churches and traditions described themselves as going in a separate Protestant direction‚ that the followers of Luther came to the specific use of the term reformation in the sense that we know it
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- Contents About the Author Bertolt Brecht is a German poet‚ play writer‚ theatre director and Marxist. Born in Augsburg‚ Germany in 1898 and was a medical orderly during WWI. This has reinforced hatred about war and eventually became more interested in literature than medicine. He is highly influenced by English writers and Chinese philosophers of the time. His famous works are ‘Drums in the Night’ about a soldier returning from war‚ ‘The Beggar’s Opera’ about his growing belief in Marxism
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Mozart. South German-Austrian family of musicians. (1) (Johann Georg) Leopold Mozart (2) Maria Anna (Walburga Ignatia) Mozart [‘Nannerl’] (3) (Johann Chrysostom) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (4) (Maria) Constanze [Constantia] (Caecilia Josepha Johanna Aloisia) Mozart [née Weber; later Nissen] (5) Carl Thomas Mozart (6) Franz Xaver Wolfgang [‘Wolfgang Amadeus’] Mozart Family: Four Lives in a Social Context (Oxford‚ 1998) Mozart (3) (Johann
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TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS…………………………………………………………………...p.2 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………………..p.3 A Brief Summary of Porter’s Article………………………………………………………p.4 THE ORIGINS OF PORTER’S CLUSTER THEORY…………………………………….p.6 EXTERNAL CRITICISM…………………………………………………………………..p.8 Theoretical Gaps…………………………………………………………………………....p.8 Clusters and Their Practical Implications…………………………………………………p.9 FUTURE DIRECTIONS…………………………………………………………………...p.12 CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………………………..p
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Introduction In our presentation we would like to discuss themes connected with sexual abuse‚ victimization‚ women sexuality and loss of sexual innocence of the main protagonists. Firstly‚ I would like to explain the definition of the sexual abuse : Sexual abuse‚ also referred to as molestation‚ is forcing undesired sexual behavior by one person upon another. When that force is immediate‚ of short duration‚ or infrequent‚ it is called sexual assault. The offender is referred to as a sexual abuser
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